Michigan Gubernatorial Candidates Vie For Tigers Fans’ Votes

Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos stood outside Comerica
Park on Saturday before Game One of the Cardinals-Tigers World Series with his
wife and their four children “greeting Tigers fans” and “handing out T-shirts
bearing his name,” according to Kathleen Gray of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. On the
shirts, the D in DeVos “had been transformed into the Old English D that also
graces the uniforms” of the Tigers. DeVos campaign spokesperson John Truscott
said of the media’s focus on the Tigers: “It’s impossible to break through with
any message. It’s all Tigers all the time. Not that that’s a bad thing.” Meanwhile,
Gray noted Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm “mentions the Tigers at almost every
stop.” Granholm “wore a Brandon Inge jersey during the annual Labor Day parade
and appeared at a rally Saturday” with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the
Tigers’ mascot, Paws (FREE
PRESS, 10/22).